PEEPING JOHN.

NZ Truth, Issue 253, 30 April 1910, Page 6

PEEPING JOHN.

Hammered by Outraged Householder.

It was . a peculiar form of depravity that was responsible for the arrest and facial disfigurement of a man named John Douglas, , at Christchurcn. Douglas entered the premises "-of a resident named Henry George Le Brtin, as the family was retiring, and placed a prurient eye to a peep-hole at a bedroom window. Le Brun became aware of the intruder's presence and descended upon him like a wolf on the fold. He inflicted some of Bill ■Lang'.s weightiest fltousnes, varied by an occasional Burns upperkjut, and reduced Douglas to a deplorable state of disre „ . pair. Then he handed him over to the ' police. ' - 7*s Magistrate Bishop heard the story next gnorniPfofygben Douglas was charged ■^B£fa£gr with being found by night T iprenaises, and regarded the ' '^jsr^jvth approval. Apparwas considered I br >flaMjglas, was *£*] >d been - ; I^_.who

juries to her mouth and chin. It is said that nothing more will be heard of it, principally because the vict'm, a respectable girl, doesn't desire to be mixed up m police court proeeadings. Cowardly cads of this description frequently e.scaie the consequences of their conduct because a well-conducted hotel doesn't desire to figure as a hostelry m which discreditable scenes of this description are .liable to occur.